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T N Robinson1

  • 1Department of Pediatrics, Stanford Center for Research in Disease Prevention, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, Calif 94304, USA. tom.robinson@stanford.edu

JAMA
|November 5, 1999
PubMed
まとめ

子供のスクリーンタイムを減らすことは,肥満を予防するのに役立ちます. 学校でのプログラムでは,テレビ,ビデオテープ,ビデオゲームの使用を制限することで,学生のボディマス指数 (BMI) と腰周りを大幅に減少させました.

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